America's Top Tupperware Salesman Works – and Burps – in Drag

Back in college when he was a musical-theater major, Kevin Farrell always figured he’d have a career singing and dancing – just not quite like this.

Donning a dress and a big wig, Farrell transforms himself from an unassuming journeyman actor to a tipsy, raunchy Jack Daniels heir known as Dee W. Ieye, then goes to work selling plastic.

Lots of plastic.

Farrell is the nation’s top-ranking solo Tupperware salesman four years running. He has a six-figure income and a fan base of Southern California women who clamor to watch him primp and pose and do his lively song and dance act as his flamboyant alter-ego.

Not bad for a guy who just a few years ago toiled as a waiter between occasional day player gigs on Frasier, Friends and My Name is Earl.

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“I get more joy out of performing live than any soundstage I ever worked on,” says Farrell, a Columbus, Ohio, native who attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Farrell created Dee to perform in the 2004 Aid for AIDS Best In Drag Show, and a year later, urged on by a fellow Tupperware salesman (also doing it in drag), was playing to small parties in living rooms across Southern California.

“An Orange County housewife gave a party for me, and it’s been nonstop ever since,” he says.

Dee became the breakout star among what is actually a handful of salesman hawking their products in drag.

Dee arrives as Farrell to each gig and spends an hour becoming Dee, drawing 30 to 50 patrons a party to his 50-minute show/sales pitch. Between tips on how to close Tupperware lids with a “burp” to make the container airtight, Farrell sings his own R-rated rendition of “9 to 5” and delivers enough off-color jokes to keep his crowd howling.

Six-Figure Income

Dee’s so hot that Farrell’s got a Hollywood publicist and, during a nine-stop tour through his hometown of Columbus last month, he made headlines and drew hundreds of fans, grossing $24,000 in sales (he keeps 25 percent).

Tupperware recently gave him a bonus – a Pontiac G-6 convertible. “Kevin’s done a great job, as you can see by his successful business,” says Tupperware spokeswoman Elinor Steele, who confirms Farrell’s No. 1 ranking. Tupperware won’t disclose his total sales figures for privacy reasons, but Farrell says his income is in the “six figures.”

Even his dad, a retired military serviceman, is impressed. “He’s amazed how I turned this into a business,” says a beaming Farrell.

Farrell’s only pet peeve about his popularity: “Some people come for the show and don’t buy anything.”

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